First off, for those who have tried to visit BraveHumans in the past couple of days only to find a Verio page, my apologies. The glitch was not due to any kind of malicious attack, but rather simply Verio shuffling servers. It turns out they switched things before the news of the changed […]
This is just an initial placeholder. There has been some talk on reddit about how congress doesn’t listen when we write them. So here is an initial place to put an archive of what we write to congress, and what congress writes back.
Just place letters to congress and responses (or links) in the […]
I noted with interest that , after all the bad feeling and conflict between the Islamic world and the west, here is a story that shows mainstream America has something in common with Islamic thought. At Yahoo News, I read about how Turkey made the teaching of creationism mandatory in their schools back in […]
In this month of Harry Potter (the latest movie and the last book both debut in July), a short article in Time caught my eye. In it, the Harry Potter series is described as “radical” (compared to Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia) because there is no religion mentioned: “If […]
Reading informs our writing. In searching around, I found this site, and this article in particular, worthwhile.
http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/rockridge/summers-of-love
Read, and enjoy. I loved the image of “parachuting in.”
Disclosure:This site is unabashedly progressive. For those of a bent to follow political discussion, I have also found their concept of “frames”interesting. You’ll find that on the homepage.
Enjoy-
Nick
Another partisan battle. The House and Senate Judiciary Committees sent subpoenas to the White House, asking for documents related to the U. S. attorney firings last year. Like many presidents before him, Bush is citing “executive privilege.”
This is not going to be a rant about that, however. This is a post to share some information […]
I’ll start out by stating my bias: I’m not a fan of on-line university education. Although I’ve never taken a course on-line, I’ve written and taught on-line graduate courses. I’ll admit that as a doctoral student I did it for the experience (something to put on my c. v.) and for the money. I taught […]
Here is an alternative direction for US global engagement put forward by John Feffer at Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), Institute for Policy Studies.
FPIF is promoting a ‘Just Security’ program that calls for:
* A reduction of $213 billion in U.S. military spending, or one-third of the total “defense” budget.
* Dramatic cuts in U.S. and Russian […]
OK, nothing about politics or religion from me today. I like to write about whatever strikes me, and this week it was an article on CNN.com about different parenting styles. (This also fits neatly with Father’s Day, so there you go.)
The article basically says that fathers and mothers parent differently. Big surprise. Anyone who has […]
The controversial No Child Left Behind Act has been around for five years now and is up for renewal. States have been charged with ensuring students’ math and reading proficiencies as measured by standardized tests; schools can be sanctioned for not meeting the goal.
Results are mixed. For instance, in Mississippi, 89% of fourth graders […]
